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Article: Developing gross national happiness
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- Jerusalem Post
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- July 21, 2006
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ASHER MEIR
Jerusalem Post
07-21-2006
Headline: Developing gross national happiness
Byline: ASHER MEIR
Edition; Daily
Section: Economics
Page: 17
Friday, July 21, 2006 -- How do we measure national well-being? In what sense can we say that Israelis are better off than they were a decade ago, or better off than members of some other nation? At some level, these judgments must be subjective but all nations also develop statistical measures of national performance. What should these measures include?
By far, the most common measure of well-being is economic income. When we compare countries, we measure "gross domestic product" (the money value of economic production) per person. When we compare ...